2017 raidergirl3 reads Baileys (and more)

I'm setting up shop here again at the Orange/Bailey book shop. I like hanging here, and some old friends even found me last year. I'm not consistent enough in recording my reads on LT, but for the spells that I do, this is where I'll be.

My goals this year are to read more nonfiction, and keep reading my mystery series', Canadian authors, and of course, women writers. No plans for any Bailey's/Oranges as of now, but once the longlist comes out, I'll be distracted by the shiny new books.

January -March
1. Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia - Elizabeth Gilbert (audiobook)
2. Lumberjanes Vol 1: Beware the Kitten Holy - Noella Stevenson, Grace Ellis
3. Lumberjanes Vol 2: Friendship to the Max - Noella Stevenson, Grace Ellis
4. Silkworm - Robert Galbraith
5. Journey to Munich - Jacqueline Winspear (audiobook)
6. Canada - Mike Myers
7. Lumberjanes Vol 3: A Terrible Plan - Stevenson, Watters
8. Lumberjanes Vol 4: Out of Time - Stevenson, Watters
9. The Boyfriend List - E Lockhart (audiobook)
10. The Argonauts - Maggie Nelson (audiobook)
11. 39 Years of Short Term Memory Loss - Tom Davis (audiobook)
12. Beautiful Ruins - Jess Walter
13. The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old With Autism - Naoki Higashido
14. I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education was Got Shot by the Taliban - Malala Yousafzai (audiobook)
15. Getting Over Edgar - Joan Barfoot

February
16. Before the Fall - Noah Hawley (audiobook)
17. Lab Girl - Hope Jahren
18. The Storied Life of AJ Fikry - Gabrielle Zevin
19. The End of the Alphabet - CS Richardson
20. Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science - Atul Gawande (audiobook)
21. Thoreau at Walden - John Porcellino
22. Chestnut Street - Maeve Binchy
23. The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet - Neil DeGrasse Tyson
24. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them - Al Franken
25. When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi (audiobook)
26. The Omnivore's Dilemma: Young Readers Edition - Michael Pollen (audiobook)
27. Choose Your Own Autobiography - Neil Patrick Harris
28. Family Matters - Rohinton Mistry
29. Argo - Antonio Mendez (audiobook)
30. Captured Hearts: New Brunswick's War Brides - Melynda Jarrett
31. Lumberjanes Vol 5: Band Together - Shannon Watters

March
32. An Irish Country Courtship - Patrick Taylor (audiobook)
33. Career of Evil - Robert Galbraith (audiobook)
34. March Book 1 - John Lewis
35. Unseen - Karin Slaughter
36. The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch - Anne Enright
37. March Book 2 - John Lewis
38. David and Goliath - Malcolm Gladwell (audiobook)
39. Queen of Hearts - Rhys Bowen
40. March Book 3 - John Lewis
41. A Single Shard - Linda Sue Park
42. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity - Katherine Boo (audiobook)
43. Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science and the World - Rachel Swaby
44. The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
45. Finding Wonders: Three Girls Who Changed Science - Jeannine Atkins
46. I Let You Go - Clare MacIntosh (audiobook)
47. Teacher Man - Frank McCourt
48. My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One Night Stands - Chelsea Handler (audiobook)

April - June
49. Hillbilly Elegy - JD Vance
50. The Forgotten Garden - Kate Morton
51. Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything - Jennifer Keishin Armstrong (audiobook)
52. Malice at the Palace - Rhys Bowen
53. Hag-Seed - Margaret Atwood (audiobook)
54. How to Be a Woman - Caitlin Moran
55. The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible - AJ Jacobs (audiobook)
56. How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe - Thomas Cahill
57.

July - September

October - December

I've started the year with some fantastic reads! I've listened to Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. (female and nonfiction)
I read Silkworm by Robert Galbraith which is a wonderful series. I'm loving Cormoran and Robin and will definitely be reading Career of Evil this year. (female and series)
I also just loved Canada by Mike Myers. Loved! He is around my age, and he wrote the book as a present to Canada on the 150th celebration year. He is so humble, smart, funny, and proud of being a Canadian. (Canadian author)

Also I've been reading the Lumberjanes series which is quite good. I'm not a huge graphic novel fan, so I only read ones that have the most fantastic reviews.

Hi Elizabeth, found you again : ).

>7 lit_chick: hi Nancy! I thought I've updated here more often, but alas, no.

Great books I've read recently -
March all three graphic novels by John Lewis,
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren,
Career of Evil and Silkworm by Robert Galbraith,
Finding Wonders: Three Girls Who Changed Science by Jeannine Atkins
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken
Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance

I made a goal to read more nonfiction this year, and look at me go! 25/49 so half of my reading, and some of the best books have been NF.

Next goal - a few more Canadian books for Canada 150. Hag-Seed is waiting for me next on my iphone and The Massey Murder by Charlotte Gray is out from the library.

Hag-Seed was a good listen, especially as it was read by R.H. Thompson. I loved that movie, Glory Enough for All about Banting and Best discovering insulin, plus he was a regular on Road to Avonlea.

Hag-Seed is part of the Hogarth Series, re-telling Shakespeare plays in modern times. Tracy Chevalier has a book based on Othello that I'd be interested in reading.

Atwood is very readable, and seeing the parallels to The Tempest (nice summary at the end of the book) made the story all the more impressive.

Happy 10th Thingaversary to me!

Whoop whoop! Are you celebrating with the appropriate degree of book purchasing? One for each year and one to grow on ...

Woohoo! Happy 10th, Elizabeth!

>11 lauralkeet: thanks Laura! I don't think I'll buy 10 books, but I may get one or two. I try not to buy many books if I can help it.

>12 lit_chick: thanks Nancy! Hard to believe it's been ten years.

>13 raidergirl3: me too, Elizabeth, and I tend to buy in small quantities unless I stumble on a used bookshop treasure trove. My tenth was back in October. I have acquired several books since then, but not as intentional Thingaversary purchases.

Happy 10th Thingaversary!

I borrowed an idea from someone (Sibyx?) for my last thingaversary and identified nine wonderful books which I already had and really wanted to read, and regifted them to myself. It was surprisingly satisfying!

>15 Soupdragon: that's a brilliant idea!

>15 Soupdragon: Brilliant!
I tag the books I buy, either 'booksale 2017' (for used, library sale type) or 'bought in 2017' for new, bookstore books. I'm at 9 for each this year. Weirdly, larger than most other years. Maybe I've been building up to my Thingaversary. *Those* are my books, and maybe one new book.

I read a Bailey book! Girl at War by Sara Novic, longlist 2016, was excellent. The wars after Yugoslavia broke up were so awful. This one is set during and after the Croat- Serbian civil war. Horrendous things happen.

It got me looking up the Vladi Divac ESPN 30 for 30 episode about the same fight. It's an excellent documentary about 2 Yugoslavian national basketball players who become estranged after the war. One was Serb, the other Croat.

I digress. The book was a quick and powerful read, good use of jumping time lines and historical significance.

I've requested a few from the 2018 longlist, Three Things About Elsie and Miss Burma which are both on order at my library. I've already read Manhattan Beach which was okay, Home Fire was good, I really liked Sing, Unburied Sing and I loved Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine.

I just finished a 2015 longlisted book, Crooked Heart by Lissa Evans which was very good. I loved the two main characters of Noel and Vee.

I think Crooked Heart is one I should add to my wishlist!

I finally found you but will look at your home page for a more updated look at the books you are reading.